More Metta for stream enterers

From time to time I wonder:
How many of you out there scratch their heads when they read the first line of the metta sutta?
Sure enough, translations of the metta sutta abound and almost every (Theravadin) monastery in East and West cherishes and chants one of the most inspiring Buddhist poems on the cultivation of loving [...]

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As pure as the full moon – Theory and Practice

[This story is part of our Arahant series.]
Once, they say, the elder Mahāsīva of ‘Mountainpeak’ lived in the city of Mahagama, in Tissa’s Abbey.

There, he taught eighteen groups of young monks in the three baskets – the traditional teachings of the Buddha as they had been handed down – in full length and according to its [...]

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